Each month the devot:ee staff picks an add-on that's especially well thought out, well built, and useful. They're add-ons that we love and think you will too!

Freeform was chosen in February 2013.

Freeform is the most powerful form building add-on for ExpressionEngine. It gives you full control to create simple or complex multi-page forms, as well as connect your forms to many popular API integrations.

Displaying ExpressionEngine entries in the exact order that you want can be difficult. Low Reorder makes this easy for you and your clients. Create Sets of entries, apply filters to it, and then just drag and drop the matching entries in the right order. It's quick, easy and your users will love it.

Manage paths and URLs more easily with Hop Deeploy Helper! Hop Deeploy Helper is a simple module to make our lives as EE developers just a little easier. It collects many of the configuration parameters we most frequently modify and displays them on one page, where power users can modify them all at once. Are you an EE developer who wouldn’t mind a few extra minutes in your day? Maybe Hop Deeploy Helper can help!

Expresso provides you with a WYSIWYG editor fieldtype for channel entries. Its main aim is to allow intuitive content editing for your users while respecting your site's design. It is integrated with EE's native file manager, allowing users to upload images and files.

The Sitemap Module is an ExpressionEngine add-on that automatically generates a configurable sitemap of your website and notifies search engines about changes in your site. It is meant as an SEO tool for site administrators that use ExpressionEngine.

Link Vault allows you to protect your local and remote download links, track all downloads, track and block leech attempts and disguise any other link URLs you'd like to protect. You can run download reports from the control panel. There are also hooks available so you can extend Link Vault's functionality. Use in combination with Link Vault Zipper extension to zip multiple files on the fly.

Calendar is the most powerful event management and calendaring add-on on the market for ExpressionEngine. The intuitive interface allows you to create events with complex recurring event rules and exclusions, while the flexible templating offers a variety of options to satisfy your calendaring needs.

Low Alphabet lets you create A to Z lists, alphabetically ordered entries and glossaries with great ease and flexibility. It can also filter channel entries by character, so you can display only entries starting with a given letter or number.

We developed Hop Inject to solve a very common but tricky problem: We wanted to place an advertisement after the 3rd paragraph on a page. But, since this is EE we're talking about, of course the 3rd paragraph was in a custom field of an entry, and it was hard to add at run time. In addition, we thought, what if we wanted to add a photo after the 4th paragraph? Or a pull quote after the 6th and 9th? What if we want to let editors add images into stories wherever they want, but they don't know HTML? (Shocking, I know.)

Hop Edit This gives logged-in users a little pencil icon that is an instant link from your public site to directly edit specific entries, templates, and categories in the control panel, based on the viewing user's permissions.

This add-on provides a field that helps you answer the question "What entries list this one as a related entry?" This "field" doesn't actually store data, but instead displays the current list of reverse-related entries from other relationship fields. Simple but useful!
You can also use Hop Introvert to quickly surface what field groups and channels are using a particular field before you make changes.